8087 - Another success for us!
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Well, as a direct result of my calls, Tabitha Lively was recovered safely in Orlando. Pretty keen.. that makes 132 recoveries in the last 46 months that are a direct result of my gig here.
The US Marshalls were very cool to work with, and FDLE was really on the ball, too (as usual). The Marshalls are up there with the FBI as far as professionalism.
I've already been interviewed by 3 news agencies regarding the story, and the big kahuna is loving the media attention she's getting... Maybe this will keep her sourpuss attitude to a minumum the rest of this week. I'm just glad that I wore one of my nice new shirts to work... I'll be interested in seeing how many errors the different agencies make in reporting... so far, I've never, ever seen an article get everything right with a story that I was aware of outside of the news agency.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:00 pm (UTC)I would like to find a gig doing what I do here, but without the political poopchutes everywhere. :)
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:06 pm (UTC)Lazy charity--pshaw---you are too hard on yourself.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:25 pm (UTC)donating blood is a super lazy charity! Sit back, feel a little pinch, and then when you're done, have some cookies and juice! I don't know why more folks don't bother with it.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:30 pm (UTC)I actually wanted to give at the last blood drive my school had but was told that since I was diabetic they wouldn't use my blood---I should check the validity of that!
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:32 pm (UTC)I'm funny about donating, too.. I don't like to watch the needle go into my arm, but it really doesn't hurt at all.
I don't think that they ask about diabetes, but Hep and some other dseases will preclude you from giving.
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:36 pm (UTC)Yeah I'm gonna try and give again---especially before inkygypsy has a go at me with a needle--I had a feeling the blood drive people were being super picky.
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Date: 2006-01-05 08:01 pm (UTC)pretty cool about the sweetblood... are you very sensitive to sweets, or is it over powering?
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Date: 2006-01-05 07:01 pm (UTC)I need to find a gig that gives me a 401k and minimal micromanagement for doing the work I'm doing now... but that may be asking too much.
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Date: 2006-01-05 08:16 pm (UTC)and also - yay! You're famous and on the news and stuph!
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:06 pm (UTC)Steve Campi, of Davie, thought the 41-year-old man and 13-year-old girl he was hitchhiking with last week were odd, given their age difference. But he didn't realize until Wednesday night that the man who drove him from Georgia to Hollywood, Samuel Lee Lively, was wanted and considered armed and dangerous.
"He was telling me he was going to marry her and I knew he was in his 40s and she looked young," Campi said. "She didn't talk too much."
Campi's hitchhiking trip provided authorities a roadmap of Lively's whereabouts in the past two weeks. Authorities found Lively and the teen at one of the stops: an Orlando day-labor pool where Lively had tried to get work.
"That was huge," said Barry Golden, spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's Office, speaking about Campi's tip.Lively is being held in Orlando on a North Carolina charge of false imprisonment, Golden said. He described the teen as "safe," though authorities were unsure late Thursday if she had been harmed.
Lively has a history of mental illness and the teen has a slight learning disability, relatives told the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News. The girl's family said they hope to have her back home sometime today."Yes, I'm upset, but I'm just happy she is OK," said the girl's mother, in North Carolina. "I'm just so glad my daughter is safe."
It would be the first time the girl had been seen by relatives in Brevard, N.C., since she went missing Dec. 27. That day, Lively told relatives he was heading to New Orleans to find work.
The next day, family members realized the teen -- and a handgun -- were missing, Golden said.
Lively picked up Campi near Valdosta, Ga. The three stopped in Orlando for two days before Lively dropped Campi off in Hollywood. There, Golden said, several people spotted Lively's pickup truck.
Campi didn't realize the pair was wanted until Wednesday evening. That night, a friend received an automated phone message from "A Child is Missing" about the girl. The two compared notes and immediately contacted authorities.
Campi's information took less than 11 hours to pay off.
Shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday the phone rang at Bayside Staffing in Orlando, recalled manager Beth Lapaglia. A federal agent asked her about a man named Lively.
She recognized the name because he and a teen had been hanging out at the office for hours that morning.
"His application was right on top and I said, `Oh, my gosh,'" she said. "He gave us his driver's license and his Social Security number."
At that moment, in a stroke of luck for investigators, Lapaglia looked up from the phone to see Lively and the teen walking across the street.
She flagged down an Orange County sheriff's deputy who happened to be in the area and the search was over.
Investigators Thursday evening were trying to determine what happened between Lively and the teen.
"We're trying to piece together what happened in North Carolina, how they came to Florida, what they've been doing," said Paige Patterson-Hughes, spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Campi, on the other hand, was considering what might have happened had he not gotten involved.
"If something would have happened to her it would have been on my conscience," Campi said. "I'm just real happy that the girl's all right and she'll be back with her family."
Information from the Orlando Sentinel and the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News was used in this report.
Brian Haas can be reached at bhaas@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4597.
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Date: 2006-01-06 04:07 pm (UTC)After a nationwide search and a key tip, she turns up on South OBT.
Henry Pierson Curtis
Sentinel Staff Writer
January 6, 2006
A nationwide search found an abducted 13-year-old girl bruised but healthy Thursday on a hard-luck stretch of South Orange Blossom Trail where prostitutes and drug dealers compete day and night.
"She looked like she had a black eye," said Beth Lapaglia, who helped authorities rescue the girl. "I'm just glad that they didn't find her in a different way -- dead."
The search began two days after Christmas when Samuel Lively, 41, and his niece disappeared from Brevard, a town about 30 miles from Asheville in western North Carolina.
Relatives, who said the girl had learning disabilities, thought the pair might be headed for Florida, Louisiana or across the Smoky Mountains into Tennessee. Lively mentioned he might find work in New Orleans, repairing houses damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Lively, a handyman with a history of alcohol abuse and mental problems, left the area driving a 20-year-old Ford pickup. Concern about the teen's safety mounted when a handgun and a change of her clothing were discovered to be missing from her family's home, authorities said.
"The family has not come up with any reason why, but they have been real concerned, which is understandable," Brevard police Sgt. Tim Waldrop said after an Orange County deputy arrested Lively. "This is a real strange one."
The Orlando Sentinel is not using the girl's name because authorities have not completed their investigation.
A tip late Wednesday from a hitchhiker picked up last week by what he considered an especially odd couple narrowed the search on Florida.
"He was telling me he was going to marry her, and I knew he was in his 40s and she looked young," said Steve Campi of Davie. "She didn't talk too much."
Campi, who was picked up by Lively in Valdosta, Ga., on Dec. 28, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that he spent several days with them, including two in Orlando, before the pair dropped him off in Hollywood.
It wasn't until Wednesday night that he learned they were wanted when a friend received an automated phone message about the missing teen from A Child Is Missing, a South Florida group. The two compared notes and immediately contacted authorities.
"That was huge," Barry Golden, spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's Office, said of Campi's tip.
On Thursday morning, investigators began calling every labor pool in Central Florida offering daily pay for manual labor.
Shortly before 10 a.m., at the labor pool Lapaglia runs, a deputy U.S. marshal from South Florida called asking if someone named Lively had been looking for a job.
"His application was right on top, and I said, 'Oh, my gosh!' " Lapaglia remembered of taking a look at a stack of new applications for Lively's name. "He gave us his drivers license and hisSocialSecurity number."
Lively and the girl had been hanging out since 5 a.m. at Bayside Staffing's office at South Orange Blossom Trail and 43rd Street, where he had been trying to get hired for the day at minimum wage doing manual labor.
Just moments before the call, Orange County Deputy Loren Appleby had stopped there to order some homeless men to leave the premises.
That's when Lively and the girl left, pushing a shopping cart across the busy road.
During the phone call, the labor-pool staff used the office computer to print Lively's photograph and "wanted" poster off the Internet. They rushed it to the deputy.
"He was just like: 'Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. You're done,' " Lapaglia said of Appleby handcuffing Lively across the street in a gas-station parking lot.
Immediately afterward, Lively niece's walked up to the deputy, "hugged him and started to cry," sheriff's spokeswoman Barbara Miller said.
Members of the state Child Protection Team from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement took the teen into custody and arrested Lively on abduction of a minor.
More charges are pending, FDLE spokesman Geo Morales said.
The teen's mother hopes her daughter will return home today.
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